Beck wants to know, "Who divided us?"
September 09, 2009 6:41 pm ET
From the September 9 edition of Fox News' The Glenn Beck Show:
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Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Sean Hannity
Lou Dobbs
Bill O'Reily
FOX and Friends
FOX
FOX Nation
Conservatives
Thats the list of whos dividing us.
Or, the Sh*t list, as the case may be.
And today sir, you are one of the leaders of division with basically everything you do AND say.
Sadly, this probably is in fact what he thinks . . .
Glenn,
Go into bathroom,
Look in mirror,
The guy in the mirror is to blame.
BTW If "Joe Six Pack" is making a decent wage, it is because he is a union member.
Um.... Beck, fess up to the role you play on the TV and, more importantly, in the voting booth:
BECK, GLENN LEE (DOB: 2/1964)
State of Registration: Connecticut
Party: REPUBLICAN
Source: Lexis/Nexis
Ha!
my childhood memories have been ruined!!!!
Really, though? Glenn Beck is dividing us? How does that work? I don't agree with MSNBC but I don't think that channel or those people are dividing anybody. Seriously, now, what are the mechanics that are happening when you all say conservatives are dividing us?
Also, what proof do you conservatives have that the Founding Fathers would agree to everything on the Republican platform? You wave the Founding Fathers around as both a sword and a shield yet offer no proof that the Founding Fathers would want to break from this government.
So many programs that exist now like Social Security, labor union reform in the New Deal, anti-trust laws, Medicare, progressive tax increases, regulations in many industries etc. The public in the time of implementation was told by conservatives that these laws would cripple and destroy America but in fact did the opposite.
Will you see Rachel Maddow interview a Republican guest and give him a chance to articulate his views in a fair debate? Just ask Tom Ridge.
Will you see Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly interview a Democratic guest and give him the same chance? I mean a REAL Democrat, and not one on Fox's payroll? Doubtful.
Does MSNBC feature Republican hosts? Ask Joe Scarborough. Does Fox have a Democratic host? Nope.
FAIL, MagCynic.
Let me start with a very basic argument concerning Beck. Whenever myself or another conservative states the fact that his show regularly pulls in twice the audience of Olbermann, the typical response is to say something like, "Well, even with his ratings he still only pulls in less than 1% of the population." This means he has relatively little influence in the population. So how can anybody say he is dividing this country? How does it work? What are the mechanics behind it?
The guy wanted to wipe California off of the map.
Hannity lets liberal callers on his show, and responds to information with "Oh, so you believe whatever Obama and Pelosi tell you, huh?" and hangs up. Mark Levin tells callers who disagree with him that they are "shmucks" and "idiots" and hangs up. Limbaugh takes virtually no calls from people who disagree with him at all.
There's no equivalency. Progressive talkers listen to both sides and debate. Conservative talkers bloviate, then refuse to listen to opposing views or listen for a few seconds, sneer at the callers, and hang up, to make fun of them afterwards like the cowards they are. They have no confidence in their arguments, because their arguments are bumper sticker versions of talking-point lies. Period.
As for the fact that conservatives "refuse to listen to opposing views" see this study:
You could refute or try to explain that any way you want, but it disproves the notion that most people are closed minded robots, we simply like facts that support our position and ignore those that don't, and both sides do that.
How, 'bout this....
We aren't leading the blind.
We ARE the blind. We have allowed ourselves to be deflected from real issues for too long.
We have ceded our responsibilities as Americans to self-serving politicians, who tell us what we want to hear, and not what we need to hear.
We have set the agenda for Washington to focus on gay marriage, bans on flag burning, school prayer, abortion limits and teaching creationism in schools. These issues have no real value in what matters most.
We have lost our focus on the real issues like, HC reform, reducing gov't waste, accountability on Wall St., etc.
WE are the problem. Not Washington. Because WE have allowed our politicians to get this way.
AND folks like Glenn Beck aren't doing us any favors by deflecting attention away from the real issues, and playing the ignorant among us like patsies. In the past, his type would be tarred and feathered & run out of town on a rail. (Look it up, it wasn't pleasant.)
I believe it is the patriotic duty of every American to understand the facts of any issue, and base their positions accordingly. In that capacity, Glenn Beck has not served you well.
The noise out there is just that, a deflection from the real issues, those that confound our country.
Keep your Eye on the Ball
If Glenn Beck is going to blame politicians for being in the pocket of lobbyists, he himself is going to have to admit that he was in Phil Kerpen's pocket during the Van Jones smear-hunt.